Posted on 06/08/2015 1:48:35 PM PDT by servo1969
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozfaLzjjZyE
British atheist writer and comedian Pat Condell's latest YouTube video targets American progressives who seek to sabotage the First Amendment in a desire to criminalize speech they deem offensive.
With his tongue planted firmly in cheek, Condell delivers a scathing, though humorous, rebuke of Americans who are sitting on the sidelines watching their fundamental birthright being purged before their very eyes in the name of progress. His British perspective is unique as he admits his home country has long since bullied the right to free speech out of its citizens.
"The progressive tide is coming in, America, and it's looking irreversible," he warns. "Not least because the next generation is being carefully programmed right now by a progressive educational establishment to hold the First Amendment and all it represents in morally superior contempt."
Though many of his videos are blows against liberal government, a great bulk of Condell's offerings have targeted Islam and religion in general, including Christianity. Many have been offended by Condell's words and many have leveled threats. Yet, Condell continues to exercise what little freedom he has left via these mini-episodes of free speech with a perspective perhaps only one from across the pond could truly understand. That is perhaps why his warning to America is so imperative:
You see, what you need to understand, America, is that feelings are the new truth, and truth is the new blasphemy in this brave new progressive world of ours. (I'm sorry, did I say brave? I meant cowardly, of course.)To this mentality, the First Amendment isn't simply an inconvenience, or an obstacle to be overcome. It's a crime against humanity.
So the days of that pesky, troublesome First Amendment are clearly numbered, folks. And when you think of all the trouble it has caused, you can't say that's a bad thing. Well, you can now, obviously, but not for long.
Athiest or not the guy is brilliant and tells it like it is.
It’s already effectively gone (see the Muhammed cartoon shooting and the elite response).
Thanks for posting.
Pat is one of the VERY few lefties I grudgingly respect. It just galls me that a man can be that clear sighted about so many things and so incredibly blind on other topics.
Pat Condell is one of the few atheists that I actually respect, one of the other ones is Penn Gillette and only recently did Penn see the light about not being a jerk about being an atheist.
I’ve listened to Pat Condell a lot and though he says or implies that he’s an athiest he sure does seem to know quite a bit about Jesus and religion, in general. I’m inclined to think he does believe in a Supreme Being or the concept but is woefully disgusted at the very nature of the men who portray themselves as religious and some of the horrendous acrs committed in the name of God. I think he’s just disappointed in Man personally.
I was thinking the same thing.
What a piece of work this one is. He wants no slap a gag order on anyone who disagrees with the government hoax will be in violation of the RICO laws.
Dictatorial insanity!
I bet I know who his favorite pope is.
All of us (including the 31,000 scientists that say man-made global warming is a scam)are like Galaleo and Pontif Al Gore and the new leader of the Unholy Inquisition is Socialist Emperor Sheldon The Unpious.
It almost makes me want to vomit to think that we have such power mad cretins in any position of power outside of the Third World.
It's almost impossible to believe that we have someone of his ilk in an office higher than dogcatcher.
I wonder if Sheldon has ever been in a mental institution?
His delusions of grandeur are off the physcological scale.
Technically, he’s Irish, not British...
He is so brave it is Puzzling and surprising that he is a leftist.
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